We had to come back up to The Woodlands to find some old geezers who wanted to lay it on thick...at least to my friend. Two grandpas kept telling her she looks like Brigitte Nielsen. I was watching the baseball game, and I wasn't their type anyway.

Bludorn had really great drinks. It was starting to get more crowded as we were leaving. Most of the people there were part of a couple, though. There was at least one, maybe two, guys sitting alone at the bar when we first got there, but everyone else was clearly having a date night.

The weirdos were actually at the place in The Woodlands we decided to stop at before going home. There were three guys dressed up in superhero costumes, a guy in chino shorts embroidered with four leaf clovers, a woman with a baby, and two creepy Italian guys, one with a diamond/rhinestone stud in his nose.

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Egads, how old are yall?
I'm gonna hop on IMDB and pick up some names of 1990's b-list actresses from my youth so I can charmingly flatter younger girls at bars.

Btw, this has to have been one of the most thoroughly documented and dissected happy hours in Houston this week.

I'm 42. She's somewhere between 45 and 50 (47, I think). It's her haircut. She's got very short, very blonde hair. And these men were older than us.

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We had to come back up to The Woodlands to find some old geezers who wanted to lay it on thick...at least to my friend. Two grandpas kept telling her she looks like Brigitte Nielsen. I was watching the baseball game, and I wasn't their type anyway.

Bludorn had really great drinks. It was starting to get more crowded as we were leaving. Most of the people there were part of a couple, though. There was at least one, maybe two, guys sitting alone at the bar when we first got there, but everyone else was clearly having a date night.

The weirdos were actually at the place in The Woodlands we decided to stop at before going home. There were three guys dressed up in superhero costumes, a guy in chino shorts embroidered with four leaf clovers, a woman with a baby, and two creepy Italian guys, one with a diamond/rhinestone stud in his nose.

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What's wrong with shorts embroidered with shamrocks? Stuff like that is a staple. Embroidered whales, sailboats, shamrocks, fish, fishing flies, etc are all preppy uniform requirements.

Well, it's not St Patrick's Day. If you're gonna do embroidered shorts or pants, at least dress appropriately for the occasion!

Although, it just occurred to me we were at a place called Mahoney's. That's why he was wearing the shamrocks.

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Well, it's not St Patrick's Day. If you're gonna do embroidered shorts or pants, at least dress appropriately for the occasion!

Although, it just occurred to me we were at a place called Mahoney's. That's why he was wearing the shamrocks.

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It was Irish 2.0...

And back in the mid 90s I loved that pixie haircut tall do the girls used to do.

Sounds like you went to a townie bar

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It's her haircut. She's got very short, very blonde hair.

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Yark alert!

Brigitte Nielsen isn't really a look women go for, even if they know who she is, I wouldn't think. Kind of mannish, which reminds me...

I once told a girl she looked like Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters, I meant that she could be his sister or something, but it came out like I thought she looked like a dude, so she walked away and never looked back.

Ah well, if she couldn't find the humor in that, she clearly wasn't my type.

Yeah, IMO men are terrible at giving compliments when it comes to comparing a woman's looks to someone else. And often it is the hair (and hair alone) that prompts them to make the comparison. I find this to be especially true if a woman has a distinctive hair cut.

When I was in my late teens/early 20s, I had long, thick, dark hair with heavy bangs and got told I looked like Monica Lewinsky. It was not a compliment. Nevermind that I look nothing like her except for we are both dark brunettes.

Now, I am often told I look like the gal who played Lady Crawley on Downton Abbey. Mainly because I have a bob haircut. Although, she is a better comparison than ML.

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It's always amusing when frumpy, boring suburbanites venture from their tract home utopia with cosmopolitan visions of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and describe dipping their toe in the Inner Loop as if they were Christopher Columbus confronting hungry cannibals in the New World.

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Hell I started this post just for the effort Critic put into it.

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Yeah, IMO men are terrible at giving compliments when it comes to comparing a woman's looks to someone else. And often it is the hair (and hair alone) that prompts them to make the comparison. I find this to be especially true if a woman has a distinctive hair cut.

When I was in my late teens/early 20s, I had long, thick, dark hair with heavy bangs and got told I looked like Monica Lewinsky. It was not a compliment. Nevermind that I look nothing like her except for we are both dark brunettes.

Now, I am often told I look like the gal who played Lady Crawley on Downton Abbey. Mainly because I have a bob haircut.

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Now that I think about it, she had the same hair as Dave Grohl, but it was more facial structure that I noticed. As a compliment, it would have been terrible, as an insult, entirely effective.

Getting someone to like you is at least half finding someone that will tolerate your weirdness. Best not to filter yourself and let the chips fall where they may, I say.

Agreed...problem is, the older people get, the more fringe their weirdness becomes.

Weird can be cute if you meet someone in real life - like at work, church, the gym, or through mutual friends - and get to know them a little bit.

Weird at a bar just makes me uncomfortable. Even worse if you're being weird online (like when using a dating app).

I'm always weird. Probably why I sleep alone

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Brigitte Nielsen isn't really a look women go for, even if they know who she is, I wouldn't think. Kind of mannish, which reminds me...

I once told a girl she looked like Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters, I meant that she could be his sister or something, but it came out like I thought she looked like a dude, so she walked away and never looked back.

Ah well, if she couldn't find the humor in that, she clearly wasn't my type.

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Maybe if you told her she looked like Dave Grohl of Nirvana she wouldn't have been so pissed. He was younger then.

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They meant that they thought you might be good at a certain act. Should've taken it as a compliment.

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Brigitte Nielsen isn't really a look women go for, even if they know who she is, I wouldn't think. Kind of mannish, which reminds me...

I once told a girl she looked like Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters, I meant that she could be his sister or something, but it came out like I thought she looked like a dude, so she walked away and never looked back.

Ah well, if she couldn't find the humor in that, she clearly wasn't my type.

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Maybe if you told her she looked like Dave Grohl of Nirvana she wouldn't have been so pissed. He was younger then.

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I hear you, but this was probably 1998-ish, The Colour and the Shape was still fresh, he wasn't bearded beerfat Dave just yet.

I don't think she even knew who he was.

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She actually nailed it on the dinner restaurant. Xin Chao was very good, and we don't have any place with a menu like that up here. I have a bit of a food hangover, but the soft shell crab and pork buns were excellent. It was also very reasonably priced, especially for the quality and amount of food that we got.

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Xin Chao is good and does have a really good happy hour. Beats the other formerly-known-as-beavers spot I hear.

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Brigitte Nielsen isn't really a look women go for, even if they know who she is, I wouldn't think. Kind of mannish, which reminds me...

I once told a girl she looked like Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters, I meant that she could be his sister or something, but it came out like I thought she looked like a dude, so she walked away and never looked back.

Ah well, if she couldn't find the humor in that, she clearly wasn't my type.

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Maybe if you told her she looked like Dave Grohl of Nirvana she wouldn't have been so pissed. He was younger then.

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I hear you, but this was probably 1998-ish, The Colour and the Shape was still fresh, he wasn't bearded beerfat Dave just yet.

I don't think she even knew who he was.

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It's probably never a good idea to tell an female she looks like some dude named Dave.

I suppose if she's wearing flannel with loose jeans and lace up boots it could be a compliment, but that's probably the only time you could get away with it.

Either way, it'll never get you laid.

A solid 3 pages for this thread, even without pics. No telling the run it could have gone on had it included pictures of remarkable talent.

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A solid 3 pages for this thread, even without pics. No telling the run it could have gone on had it included pictures of remarkable talent.

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TA so thirsty

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Btw, this has to have been one of the most thoroughly documented and dissected happy hours in Houston this week.

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I'm working up a screenplay about it. If we can get this right, it will be a great all-female lead cast type movie but without the really forced/we're trying too hard feel like all those all female reboots with that one porker that always grumbles about her vagina.

Seeing about optioning the musical rights as well pending box office/critical reception to see if we can't put together a Broadway hit followed by a touring show.

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Brigitte Nielsen isn't really a look women go for, even if they know who she is, I wouldn't think. Kind of mannish, which reminds me...

I once told a girl she looked like Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters, I meant that she could be his sister or something, but it came out like I thought she looked like a dude, so she walked away and never looked back.

Ah well, if she couldn't find the humor in that, she clearly wasn't my type.

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Maybe if you told her she looked like Dave Grohl of Nirvana she wouldn't have been so pissed. He was younger then.

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I hear you, but this was probably 1998-ish, The Colour and the Shape was still fresh, he wasn't bearded beerfat Dave just yet.

I don't think she even knew who he was.

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It's probably never a good idea to tell an female she looks like some dude named Dave.

I suppose if she's wearing flannel with loose jeans and lace up boots it could be a compliment, but that's probably the only time you could get away with it.

Either way, it'll never get you laid.

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Can confirm.

As much as I love the idea of Catriona Balfe or Michelle Dockery bringing the story of my life to the big screen, I don't even think I would watch that snooze fest!

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As much as I love the idea of Catriona Balfe or Michelle Dockery bringing the story of my life to the big screen, I don't even think I would watch that snooze fest!

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It will be a lot more interesting. The key phrase is "based on a true story."

Don't worry; there's also a riveting subplot involving Irish 2.0 and several uncomfortable Uber drivers hitting every bar mentioned in this thread.

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Don't worry; there's also a riveting subplot involving Irish 2.0 and several uncomfortable Uber drivers hitting every bar mentioned in this thread.

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I imagine a Mike from Swingers voice mail or new style text string involved as well. Is it Irish making the call/text or Transplant? Wait and see!

There should be a tine traffic movie like Falling Down before a movie about suburban women going to happy hour. It could be called Sitting Sideways or Getting Thoed.

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a movie about suburban women going to happy hour.

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potentially more depressing than Schindler's list.

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a movie about suburban women going to happy hour.

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potentially more depressing than Schindler's list.

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Well, that's a tad over-dramatic.

It's more like clinging to the deck of the Titanic, insisting "She's, unsinkable!" while everyone else crowds into life boats to freeze to death in the Atlantic.

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Don't worry; there's also a riveting subplot involving Irish 2.0 and several uncomfortable Uber drivers hitting every bar mentioned in this thread.

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Wait, what happened? I stopped following this thread and noticed it was still going. Low and behold I've been mentioned twice!

As if this can't get any weirder...my friend got a job offer. Bludorn FTW!